Vol. XXVIII 



IQI2 



1 Field Naturalists' Club — Proceedings. 



December. These birds might be the last survivors of a small 

 flock that ranged the plains in the neighbourhood of the 

 Balliang Creek for a number of years. On the same date he 

 saw several White Ibis, Ibis mohtcca, in the neighbourhood of 

 Anakie. A week previously seven of these birds were noticed 

 in company with some Straw-necked Ibis, Carphihis spinicollis, 

 beside a swamp near Rockbank. On the same day, when 

 journeying through the Brisbane Range between Rowsley and 

 Beremboke large numbers of Bronze-wing Pigeons, Phaps 

 chalcoptera, were flushed from the roadside. The birds were 

 attracted by Acacia Mitchelli, which, while flowering pro- 

 fusely, was shedding an abundance of the previous season's 

 seed. 



Mr. G. A. Keartland reported having recently seen a Spotless 

 Crake, Porzana tahuensis, at North Preston. It was found by a 

 dog, near a watercourse, and followed for some distance before it 

 flew, thus enabling a good view to be obtained of it. This is 

 the first time it has been reported so near Melbourne. 



EXHIBITS. 



By Mr. J. Cronin. — Flowering branches of the Cedar or 

 Pepper-tree Wattle, Acacia data, A. Cunn., also of the Swamp 

 Mahogany or Turpentine-Box, Tristania laurina, R. Br., from 

 trees now flowering luxuriantly in the Melbourne Botanic 

 Gardens. 



By Mr. J. E. Dixon. — About 80 species of Coleoptera, 

 recently collected at Warburton and Portland. 



By Mr. J. Gabriel. — Eggs of the Short-tailed Petrel or 

 Mutton-bird, Puffiims hrcvicaudns. 



By Mr. A. D. Hardy, F.L.S. — Specimens of Lyngbya 

 cBstnarii (Mert.), Liebman, the alga of which the nests of the 

 White-headed Stilts recorded by Mr. C. French, jun., in the 

 January Naturalist were composed. 



By Mr. W. G. Mackintosh. — Fossils from Maria Island, 

 Tasmania. 



By Mr. F. Pitcher. — Dried specimens of the Ivy-leaved 

 Violet, Viola hederacea, Lab., with exceptionally long stalks, 

 from Mount Donna-Buang, Warburton ; also stem of Batswing 

 Fern, Pteris incisa, over seven feet in length, from Warburton. 



By Mr. P. R. H. St. John. — Dried specimens of Eucalyptus 

 Consideniana, Maiden. " Yertchuk," collected at Eltham, 

 August, 191 1, not previously recorded as found growing near 

 Melbourne (other Victorian localities — Toongabbie, Walhalla, 

 Metung, &c. ; found also in New South Wales) ; also young plants 

 of Eucalyptus regnans, F. v. M., and E. rubida, Deane and 

 Maiden. 



By Mr. J. Searle. — Water insects with minute molluscs 



